From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1999 06:02:49 +0200
From: Lucio de Re lucio@proxima.alt.za
Subject: [9fans] Argh -- auth checklist?
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According to Charles Forsyth:
> 
> i suspect there is a small step that's either easy to miss out
> or easy to insert (given extrasensory knowledge).  i've set up
> several plan9 systems several times without trouble, but there
> seems to be Some Thing that i inadvertently do right or others
> accidentally do wrong: too many other people have had trouble.
> 
Well, I managed to get the actual IP address into the encrypted auth 
server configuration thingy (I think it's a separate partition) and to 
this day I've been wondering how to change it.  Of course, I could 
browse throught the sources, but each time that would take longer than 
waiting for the AS to time out :-(

> >>itself is the authserver? I have to use 0.1.0.0 as the auth
> >>server IP address, or it won't boot up (the default says it
> 
> try setting the address in /lib/ndb/local for auth= should to the
> true IP address.  use 0.1.0.0 only for the prompt for auth server
> address during the bootstrap.  otherwise, it might well become confused.
> 
A simple check for a zero value would stop a lot of PANICs in the AS 
start up code.  It's _another_ of those things that are too easy, yet 
too difficult to fix :-(

I wonder if we can persuade Red Hat to audit the Plan 9 sources too :-)
Under the new Lucent licence terms, of course :-)  :-)  :-)

++L

PS:  Charles, are you waiting for some response from me on the 
3C905B-TX NICs, and if so, will you remind me what I can do to help 
progress on their drivers?